Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.